• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    What are you talking about? I’m sure analogy sounded good in your head, but it only indicates you understand nothing about a military operation.

    In a civilian context you don’t need to first invade a country so you can have boots on the ground so you can send someone into the school. Invading a country will result in a huge number of civilian casualties before you can send soldiers into that school to take out the target. Is that what you want?

    There is basically no probability that you’re sending soldiers into an ambush, there’s no probability that the school is rigged to explode as soon as the soldier opens the door when it’s a school shooting.

    It’s actually more the opposite. Terrorists have been known to blow up schools do you understand that? So if you have just one opportunity to take out that terrorist and you don’t do it, and next week that same terrorist blows up a school and 50 children die, did you make the right decision?

    These kinds of scenarios are a constant trolley cart problem. No matter what you do, civilians are going to die. You’re just ignorantly calling the guy operating the track switch of genocide triggers the switch and you also accuse him of genocide if he doesn’t trigger the switch, you’re just someone accusing everyone of genocide constantly which means that word doesn’t mean anything anymore. That only benefits the people that actually commit genocide.

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      5 months ago

      What are you talking about? I’m sure analogy sounded good in your head, but it only indicates you understand nothing about a military operation.

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            It’s pretty wild that we are at a point in which we can say with all seriousness “how many children does that justify the IDF killing?” Like, it’s clear that people who approve of what Israel is doing are okay with some number that is above zero, and we have to ask a question like that to understand where the “too far” line could possibly be. And any refusal to answer that question is an implicit blank check. I think I could’ve forgiven up to maybe a dozen if they had been careful and not signaled clearly that genocide was their intent. We’re way past that though, hoping that the answer to your question is some number less than “all of them” and it’s really fucking sad.